Entrepreneur Magazine Claiming It Owns The Word Entrepreneur?
from the trademark-madness dept
A writer/speaker who set up a website at entrepreneurology.com apparently received a cease and desist letter from Entrepreneur Magazine, who is also opposing his attempt to trademark the term. Nice of Entrepreneur Magazine to be so supporting of other entrepreneurs, huh? The guy has preemptively sued the magazine’s publisher to have it declared that he’s not infringing:
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Comments on “Entrepreneur Magazine Claiming It Owns The Word Entrepreneur?”
The art of the Entrepreneur in developing publicity for magazines and startups is clearly beyond some people, as is the old adage about no publicity being bad publicity …
Change the name of the blog to Monster Ontrapernewer. Not that big of a deal.
-Stevee Joebs
Send Sheri Davis to talk to those guys.
both attention seeking ?
Hold up...
If Entrepreneur Magazine owns the word “Entrepreneur” and no one else could really use it, wouldn’t that essentially make the word worthless?
People Magazine owns people
Life Magazine owns life
Time Magazine owns time
It’s all becoming very clear now …
Dibs
Yes, they now own the “E” word. They called it so they own it. Please remove all occurrences of it from this article and your website before legal action is initiated.
Thank you.
More turds that don’t understand!
Owns what...
I will be copyrighting the word “And” plus all its variants. You will ALL be paying me big bucks soon….
Sound stupid? Its no stupider than than the meat of this story!
Re: Owns what...
It’s going to have to be “nd”, I’ve already copyright all the vowels.
Re: Re: Owns what...
I’ve got a trademark and copyright on the letter E. Try writing much in English without using that letter!
And, I’ve applied to the USPTO for a patent on it as well!
So there!
That’s fine. After Reading their Legal Document they only claim ownership to the word ‘ENTREPENEUR’, not ‘Entrepeneur’ or ‘entrepeneur’. I hope they didn’t pay that lawyer.
They have a web site you know. I sent them emails protesting about their lawsuit. They are losers with an ad before you can enter their site. Losers with useless information. Did anyone ever make money from that mag. NOT. These mags are rags.
Re: Re:
Spellcheck?
To Entrepreneur:
Nice job showing your target audience that you don’t know how to innovate and instead are run by a bunch of lawyers who only know how to litigate.
But who owns the word "magazine"?
What is the origin of the word “magazine” and who used it first? Anybody with access to OED, please look it’s first use up. Maybe then Entrepreneur Magazine can get a C&D too.
Merriam-Webster
Dictionary
en·tre·pre·neur noun
ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər, -ˈn(y)u̇r
Definition of ENTREPRENEUR
: one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise
— en·tre·pre·neur·ial adjective
— en·tre·pre·neur·ial·ism noun
— en·tre·pre·neur·ial·ly adverb
— en·tre·pre·neur·ship noun
Origin of ENTREPRENEUR
French, from Old French, from entreprendre to undertake — more at enterprise
First Known Use: 1852
DICTIONARIES BEING COPYRIGHTED COULD SUE FOR INFRINGEMENT AND SHOULD WIN HANDS DOWN. Of course you would have to have a sane Judge to make a righteous decision based on reality.
Shouldn’t this really be a trademark issue? I’m confused…
This is not new for Entrepreneur Media
It is reported that they’re going after everybody that uses the “E” word. This article in Business Review lists some other folks that have encountered EMI. Any subscribers reading here? Vote with your dollars; don’t buy or subscribe. Don’t patronize their advertisers. (How would you know who they are? Check the web site maybe.)
So, I wonder how many corporate lawyers have the legal right to conduct business like this without the direct approval of the CEO. I wonder how many of them trade stocks in competitors and pull these stunts to affect the prices they buy and sell at.
I’m sure that the judges presiding over these cases are stockholders too.
Wait, did I read this wrong?
A writer/speaker who set up a website at entrepreneurology.com apparently received a cease and desist letter from Entrepreneur Magazine, who is also opposing his attempt to trademark the term.
Wait, why are we angry at Entrepreneur Magazine? Doesn’t the above say that the guy owning entrepreneurology.com is trying to trademark the term Entrepreneur? If so, I’d be doing the same thing as a company, to avoid the possibility of later being sued by the guy owning the trademark.
Re: Wait, did I read this wrong?
Doesn’t the above say that the guy owning entrepreneurology.com is trying to trademark the term Entrepreneur?
No. So, yes, you apparently did read it wrongly.
Entrepreneur Magazine already has a trademark on “Entrepreneur Magazine”, so they’re in no danger of being sued by the holder of a trademark on “entrepreneurology”. They’re just trying to expand their trademark to cover other things and block competition in the market for anything having to do with entrepreneurs or entrepreneurship.